A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown ...

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court. Laser surveys have ...

No, this isn’t a plot from Indiana Jones: An ancient Maya city that’s been lost for centuries was just uncovered in Mexico.

The city had two major centers and included temple pyramids, amphitheaters, and a reservoir. A historically and culturally ...

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

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